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Good for Me and Good For My Region. The Ambivalences of Responsible Everyday Food Literacy Between Self-Referentiality and Locavoracity
Reckinger, Rachel
20173e Conférence Internationale d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation Third International Conference on Food History and Food Studies
 

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Keywords :
Food Consumption; Sustainability; Reflexivity; Meanings and Values; Regionality; Locavoracity; Self-Referentiality
Abstract :
[en] Good for Me and Good For My Region. The Ambivalences of Responsible Everyday Food Literacy Between Self-Referentiality and Locavoracity. This paper is based on two interdisciplinary empirical surveys at the University of Luxembourg (quantitative and qualitative), carried out in the transnational context of Luxembourg and the surrounding Greater Region, allowing for comparative results of consumption dynamics between regions in Luxembourg, Germany, France and Belgium. It aims to analyse everyday appropriations of ‘responsible’ eating habits – seen as a set of plural ways of how people put into practice plural ideas of sustainability. To find out by which motivations the motor for ‘responsible’ consumption is driven, the notion of sustainability is characterised by quantitative indicators of possible sustainability in the food domain, relating to consumed foods or to individual criteria of food selection. Subsequently, qualitative interviews provide insights into the meanings of, and values behind, those indicators, uncovering everyday priorities, appropriations and strategies of consumption, as well as its justifications in a perspective of spatial identification. By contrasting arguments about food consumption ideals and practices, the results show a marked dialectic between self-referentiality and a general interest in food’s provenance, understood as regionally produced. This ‘locavorous’ form of regionality favours a (new) consciousness of geolocalized context of food production, which may, in turn, have an impact on the overall food literacy, increasingly seen as a political field of citizen action for lowering carbon transport emissions, fostering community identifications and anchoring local socio-economic valorizations. This shows which aspects of the polysemic idea of sustainability are relevant to consumers’ preoccupations, and to what extent consumers are reflexive in their ‘responsible’ food choices.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Reckinger, Rachel ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Good for Me and Good For My Region. The Ambivalences of Responsible Everyday Food Literacy Between Self-Referentiality and Locavoracity
Publication date :
01 June 2017
Event name :
3e Conférence Internationale d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation Third International Conference on Food History and Food Studies
Event organizer :
Institut Européen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation (IEHCA)
Event place :
Tours, France
Event date :
1st and 2nd June 2017
Audience :
International
References of the abstract :
Panel: Views on organic farming (2) - Approaches to contemporary producers and consumers devoted to alternative ways of farming
Focus Area :
Sustainable Development
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